CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

This oddity was a huge AOR hit in '86 but went nowhere pop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iFTE-u7Gg&feature=kp

Let's not forget "Bongo Bongo". Steve Miller is to some extent a dude who buys toys and then makes records with them.

ughhhhhh

best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5grDqllnQ

Haha, I totally remember that Steve Miller song Al posted. The local AOR station played it for about a week and then decided enough of that shit.

"Abracadabra" is a song I wish wasn't so gross, because otherwise it would be totally in my comfort zone.

yeah I will defend Macho City as well

Merzbow didn't work so I turned to Chumbawamba to get Jetliner out of my head, very effective

hey now "jet airliner" got paul pena paid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA

now say "jungle love" and all i can hear is OEEYOEEYO

Jesus, "Macho City" makes me yearn for "Fly Like an Eagle", a song I loathe with every fibre of my being.

"Serenade" is trippy as hell

Wait.. I mean the song with all the synths and drum machines

"Wild Mountain Honey"

Wild Mountain Honey is prob the best thing Steve Miller ever did

now "black panties with an angel face" make me dry heave :(

I've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out if that was the lyric and eventually concluded "no it ... can't be"

The last two minutes are kind of slightly atonal and weird though - I assume they never, ever get played on Classic Rock Radio?

It gets played, albeit not as much as the earlier hits, even though it was a bigger hit (#1 Pop in the US).

Europe - The Final Countdown

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-aqc14tIy6E/SbCUiDAEdTI/AAAAAAAAABg/oHwqqbKLi3Y/s320/gob+bluth.jpg

Revelation: there's an outline of a woman's body in that horse's head!

''Take the Money and Run'' and ''Fly Like an Eagle'' have both always fallen a little flat with me, studio slickness and ''ah-OOOOOO lawd!'' aside. But man... ''Jet Airliner,'' ''Jungle Love'' and ''Swingtown,'' that's what I want my mid-to-late-period classic rock to sound like, all top 30 in my ballot for sure.

I don't see a woman's body in that horse, but there's maybe a couple different ways I could see a penis, I guess.

She's looking behind her, like if she was laying down, right? Or maybe I'm just seeing shit too

Has "Stone Cold" by Rainbow been nominated yet?

Also: there should be a subpoll for band logos.

^^^

feel like with enough campaigning (skip the first three mins) i could have gotten macho city to place in the disco poll

steve miller was music for people who didn't like music when i was in high school
tons of people would go see him and get wasted and it seemed like that was all they cared about. jimmy buffett people. some of them were nice people but they had corny taste.

a lot of the rest of this stuff (including the other mentioned Miller songs)... ugh, yeah, it has this awful earworm effect due to familiarity, one time I was in a laundromat and "Rosanna" came on and it was like living in hell for a week, it never left my head afterwards. I can hear it now, as I type this, it haunts me. Things like "Maggie May", or the works of Tom Petty, on the other hand, feel lie old friends that don't overstep their boundaries. And they don't get stuck in my head - maybe a relationship?

the former (steve miller earworms) -- the worst of these for me is "wheel in the sky" just typing it makes me tense up bc i know it's here to stay for at least a few min.
the latter (old friends) -- otm, my favorites of these songs really do feel like friends i've had my whole life (lol lonely only) they have kept me company in so many different and varied places!

I had forgotten about that aspect of Steve Miller, but you're right! There was totally a mid-90s Jimmy Buffett-esque vibe to it. White hats.

My hippie friend just went to see Steve Miller Band like a week ago and was raving about the giant LED unicorns that turned on at the beginning of "Fly Like an Eagle" just as the sun was setting.

everyone pls vote for BOC - GODZILLA

v v important

Will do. "Burnin' For You" is going to be very high on my ballot, too.

Has "Stone Cold" by Rainbow been nominated yet?

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, June 27, 2014

amazingly, no. i second this nomination!

I love Burnin, Godzilla, and the Reaper -- will vote, no campaigning needed

Which Tom Petty songs will rise to the top? The Waiting + Refugee + Break Down are my all time favorites. I think? I think I'm going to vote for the songs I most like to sing or to turn it up, man.

is breakdown one word or two
anyway -- i love the way he says "don't" in that song

yeah Tom Petty is an interesting one where i wanna see what songs win out. i feel like "American Girl" has primacy but there's like 5-10 songs that are all major players.

Whoa, just took a closer look at the list. I nominate:

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers

Led Zeppelin - In The Evening
Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine

I've never heard "Even the Losers" on CR but damn that is an exhilarating song. Basically I love Tom Petty though, fuiud

yooo bedda wadda wadda yooo say

best pic of tom petty
https://www.byebuys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/799367-1200x1197.jpg

sorry so large

no way, shd be LARGER <3

he could've been in Children of the Corn if he'd been born later

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers

Led Zeppelin - In The Evening
Led Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine

cosign the 1st 2, not sure about the 3rd

petty photo missing long earring. I love that time in the 80s when every old rocker (petty, dylan, keef) wore single dangly obelisk earrings.

early photo, no earring, but WHOA what a hunk:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_iRCC46ILdk/TwXelMqMnJI/AAAAAAAADeg/5vFoCynDnX4/s1600/Tom%252BPetty.jpg

looks like a still from "dazed and confused."

stoned, immaculate

fun fact, Tom Petty was considered to be in the "punk" category early on:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Whitmans-Punk-Sampler/master/478953

well he was no more punk, and was considered no more punk, than talking heads, who also seem to be on that sampler. but he was absolutely marketed, and received, as a left-of-the-dial underground taste when he started out, his (minor) pop hits notwithstanding.